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The Greentown Gem - 1931-02-05

The Greentown Gem – 1931-02-05 - Page 1

Local Girl Guest of Honor
At Farewell Party Mon.
Miss Alice Cottingham, who has
been employed at the Northern Indi-ana'
Power Co. offices at Kokomo for
some time, has resigned her position
to accept a position in the Union
Traction Offices at Anderson. Miss
Cottingham was the guest of honor
at a farewell party Monday evening
at Kokomo, tendered her by friends
in the power company offices at Koko-
MO.
Vishanoff to Speak at the
Meridian St. church Sun.
Dr. D. E. C. Vishanoff, M. D., of
Thessalonica, Macedonia, will speak at
the Meridian Street Christian Church
Sunday evening. He will use as his
subject; " Macedonia, My Native
Land." Dr. Vishanoff has been en-gaged
in missionary work, and is a
very able speaker. He brings a mes-sage
well worth hearing. Everybody
invited.
Research Club To Have
Pot Luck LuncheonTeb. 12
A Pot- luck luncheon will be held
with Mrs. R. W. Graham Thursday,
February 12, at 12 o'clock. All mem-bers
are requested to bring their own
table service.
" YOUNG MEN" HOLD TREE
CUTTINi PARTY WED. A. M.
When two of our " young men" get
together there is bound to be some-thing
doing. W. A. Fulwider and
Uncle Bill Wright have had their
heads set on doing something unusual
for some time, and have spent quite
a bit of leisure hours deciding on just
what they would do. Wednesday
morning found them on the job, at-tacking
a thirty inch tree. Both of
these gentlemen are 81 years old and
they don't look or act it. If you doubt
this ask any one who viewed the cere-monies
of the tree felling Wednesday.
The only difference from olden days
says Bill is that we had to stop a little
oftener to get our breath and take a
" drink."
That's sure fine to see our older
' itizens behaving like youngsters and
Sur wish for them is that they may
enjoy a still longer life, growing
younger as they get older.
THE Henry
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THIRTY- SEVENTH YEAR
GREENTOWN, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEB. 5, 1931
No. 28
HainsGarageDestroyedbyFireSat. Morn.
Flames Discovered at 2: 20 Saturday
Morning in Battery Room Sweep
Entire Building.
Twenty- One Cars, Truck, Tractor and
Motorcycle Along With Contents
Consumed in Flames
$ 25,000.00 LOSS PARTIALLY
• COVERED BY INSURANCE unless some valiant worwas one
other buildings were doomed along
with the garage building, and much
concern was felt for the Hamer resi-dence,
the M. E. Church, the big
sale barn, besides the post office, and
the Kemper and Wagner buildings to
the north were watched very closely
during the progress of the fire. Sparks
fell upon the roofs of the bank build-ing,
Smith's building and the Ford
Home, but were extinguished by the
watchers.
Only One Storage Car
Only one storage car was in the
garage for the night, which belonged
to John Osborn. Mr. Osborn said he
had left lais work clothing in the car
A property loss of $ 25,000.00 occur- along with an overcoat. They all
ed early Saturday morning when the went up in smoke.
Hams Garage, operated by John Mains Loss Partially Covered
local Chevrolet dealer and proprietor Mr. Mains is understood to have car-of
a general garage and storage busi- vied approximately $ 6,000 on the con-ness,
was consumed by fire which raz- tents of the building and a partial
ed the large garage building along coverage on the new cars, while it
with the contents which consisted of has not been leraned how much, if
five new Chevrolet cars, a truck, tract- any, was carried on the building.
or, motorcycle and fourteen used cars The building was owned by a Mr.
and a storage car belonging to John Darling of South Whitley, and up to
Osborn, along with a very complete * he time this is being written, had
garage equipment consisting of tools, not come to look over the ruins of his
Batteries, accessories, oils, greases, building.
tires, etc. The post office building Undecided About Future.
across the alley to the south, was also The many friends of Mr. Hams are
considerably damaged by fire and anxious to know of his future plans,
water, as was the roof of the garage and in answer to the question Tues-belonging
to Chas. Hamer a few feet day, stated that he did not know yet
to the south of the post office. Win- just what he would do and that furth-dows
were cracked by the intense heat er plans could not be made until he
in the buildings across the street to conferred with Mr. Darling, owner of
the east at the Wright drug store and the building, and other details of the
the Ford Home. loss worked out. He, however, stated
Discovered About 2: 20 O'clock that he would continue the Chevrolet
The blaze was discovered about 2: 20 • rency here, and would probably be
o'clock by Mr. ancI, Mrs. Charles Ham- job again by next week. This
e' 3'; w A i.
o reside ne. ti to tine post ° dice- Lie received many
south of the garage. Mrs. Hamer ! by the people of Greentown
well alsri$ S
and com-was
awakened by the smell of smoke munity, as we would suffer a very
and aroused her husband who made noticable loss should the HaMs' de-an
investigation, finding the garage tide to leave town. The Hams gar-full
of smoke. He immediately turn- age was a very popular place among
ed in the alarm and sought to notify autoists, and Mr. Heins, along with
the owners. his two brothers employed in the busi-
Started in the Battery Room ness had made many friends who are
According to those arriving at the really and sincerely interested in their
garage first, the flames were confined wellfare.
to the battery room just back of the Praise For Kokomo Firemen
office on the north side. Claude Stan- Too much thanks and praise can-ley
and Jake Buzzard, employed at not be given the Kokomo fire depart-the
local bakery, were probably a- ment for their efficient help during
mong the first to arrive on the scene, the fire. The quick response to the
and with the chemical tanks, began to call for help and the vigor with which
fight the fire through a window of the they entered the fight calls forth much
battery room, but the small amount admiration, as well as thankfulness
of chemicals on hand was insufficient for having such friendly neighbors
to make much impression on the blaze who are so willing to lend a helping
but with the arrival of more of the hand in a time of grave danger and
tanks it was hoped to be able to get need. They are given credit and
it under control. rightfully so, for saving the post of-
It is said that the glass in the front' lice and other buildings to the south
doors was broken, giving the blaze a of the garage. The men worked hard
draft and the flames enveloped the manning two large hose connected to
whole interior of the building almost the water plug on the alley by the
immediately. By this time help was Ford Home, the booster pump giving
beginning to arrive and the big front out some one hundred pounds of pres-sure,
which threw a stream with tell-ing
effect.
Must Also Thank Water Co.
While thanks is being passed around
we must not forget Mr. Grau, and
the water works company. Mr. Grau
worked hard all during the fire and
turned the water plant over to the
pumping of water for the Kokomo
booster. They kept up a fairly large
supply of water all during the pro-gress
of the fire.
We believe we speak the sentiment
of the entire community when we ex-tend
our thanks to the Kokomo fire
department and the Greentown water
works company for the part they
played in Attling the flames.
Third Building To Burn
The garage building was the third
one to bum on this spot since 1900.
The first to burn was a frame livery
barn, and the second a sheet iron liv-ery
and feed barn along about 1910
after which the present cement block
building was erected.
Other Big Fires
Since 1900 Greentown has had its
share of big losses by fire, beginning
with the first Corona mill fire, comes
the two elevator fires, the two livery
barn fires, the skating rink, the old
American hotel or Interurban station,
the Henley & Willcutts explosion and
fire, the glass factory, the school
building, the post office and Mast &
Petro hardware, the canning factory,
and the second Corona mill blaze. All
these tell a tale of destruction and re-present
a property damage of hun-dreds
of thousands of dollars in mon-ey,
besides the impairment of busi-ness
generally in the town.
As in the present fire, Greentown
was lucky. The wind, was from the
right direction to aid in keeping the
flames from spreading ` o other build-ings.
No one can truth: ully say that
with better fire fighting equipment
any of these buildings could have beer
saved, but it is reasonable to assume
Continued on last page
KOKOMO PUMPER RENDERS
VALUABLE ASSISTANCE
Post Office Damaged — Windows
Cracked by Intense Heat— Other
Buildings Threatened.
doors were broken open and a new
Chevrolet Coupe nearest the door was
dragged and half carried from the
burning building.
The smoke and heat was so intense
by this time that all efforts to re-move
any of the other cars would have
been a very dangerous task. The big
wrecking car was taken from the
building through the back door.
Many Explosions Occur
As the flames swept over the build-ing
several explosions occurred, bar-rels
of oil and tanks of gasoline let
go with terrific force, making the heat
more intense and the smoke rose sky-ward
in large volume. The walls were
pushed outward, releasing much of the
heat, which cracked windows across
the street to the east.
As the flames swept through the
garage the heat and flying embers
caught the post office building just
across the alley to the south, and the
volunteers began work on saving this
building, and watchers were posted on
all the surrounding buildings. The
roof on the Hamer residence was kept
soaked with water.
Call For Help From Kokomo
Realizing that the fire might soon
get beyond all control and sweep
entire block, a call was made to the
Kokomo fire department, who respond-ed
to the call for help by a quick run
with a pumper truck. Just thirteen
minutes after the company had the
request, they were stopping on Mer-idian
street and unloading a line of
hose.
In the meantime Oscar Grau, local
manager of. the water works, started
the pump and had the big tank sup-plied
with a good supply of water for
the pumper to use.
The hose was played on the walls
next to the post office first and then
turned upon the building extinguish-ing
the blaze on the roof and then go-ing
to the rear of the garage and
playing the stream on the flames to
kill them down and keep the burning
embers from blowing over the town,
thus lessening the danger of other
buildings catching fire.
The post office caught fire two or
three times, but the stream played on
it by the Kokomo boys kept it under
control.
Other Buildings Threatened
It was apparent from the first that
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CHRIST FOR ALL- ALL FOR CHRIST
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ny wad Ma lamp am. my feet. aad a HIM um .1 Yalk— Poor 119: 11.
SAFETY WHILE ASLEEP — I
will both lay me down in peace, and
sleep: for thou, Lord only makest me
dwell in safety.— Psalm 4: 8.
PRAYER— Help us to realize that
" the angel of the Lord encampeth
round about them that fear Him." • • • • • • • • • •
• Remember the Sabbath Day, to
• Keep It Holy.— Exodus 20: 6. •
• GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY •
• • • • • • • • • • • •
Only Four Games Remain Before the
Sectional Tourney on March
Sixth and Seventh
Howard Institute Will Be
Held Monday and Tuesday
The Greentown Beavers were
thrown for their fifth loss of the sea-son
at Russiaville Saturday night
when the Cossacks rung up a 16- 15
victory over the Kingmen in a thrill-ing
duel, and Union Township fell be-fore
the locals on Friday night in the
local gym by the score of 31- 12, for
the Beavers tenth victory of the sea-son.
This places the Beavers on a .750
percentage basis.
The schedule calls for the Beavers
to tfavel for the next two weeks, with
the first journey taking them to Am-boy,
where they are expected to run
into hard sledding, but a victory is
anticipated. The Beavers have one
win over the Amboy boys, but since
that time the Amboyites have im-proved
greatly and expect to give the
locals a hard run for their money.
On the following Friday evening the
Green and White journey to Young
America. When Young America ap-peared
here earlier in the season, they
looked bad, but Coach Williams has
them up and coming now as evidenced
by the county tourney play, and the
Beavers will be forced to play their
best ball to chalk up a win here.
Converse comes here on Feb. 20.
Trin a. isreg t's'eXPected to be the "' Chas-ic
of the local season. The locals were
bested at Converse by a small count,
and the Converse boys have been go-ing
strong, meeting defeat only at the
hands of Sweetser, Grant County
champions. Converse captured the
Miami County meet two weeks ago.
This game will be a sizzler. Howard
Township closes the schedule here on
Feb. 27. This should be a good game
as both teams will be polishing off for
the sectional the following week.
Union Fights Hard
Despite the bear stories that Coach
King floated during the past week,
Friday night found most of the Beav-ers
ready for action and the Union
Township Cardinals fell before their
offensive in fairly easy fashion, 31- 12.
Despite the large score against them,
the Cardinals fought all the way, and
presented a fairly strong defense a-gainst
the Kingmen, but their- offense
was_ stopped by the locals almost be-fore
it started. The locals pulled a-way
from the start and were never
headed. Jamison performed well for
the visitors on both defense and of-fense,
while Shrader was the scoring
boy for the locals.
Russiaville Grabs Thriller.
Coach King took the Beavers to
Russiaville Saturday night and receiv-ed
a one point reverse by the Cossacks
who have suddenly come to life and
are now playing bang- up ball.
The scoring was fairly even for the
first part of the game, with Russia-ville
taking a 9- 5 lead at the half. The
Beavers began hitting in the second
half and with three minutes to go had
assumed a one point lead. The play
was hard and' desparte. Kanable en-tered
the game and shortly after loop-ed
the winning goal for Russiaville,
giving- them a one point advantage
shortly before the final gun.
The local seconds faired better for
the two games, winning from Union
seconds 19- 9, and from Russiaville,
19- 14..
The line- ups and scores:
Union ( 12) FG FT PF
Petro 0 0 1
Wimmer 1 1 3
Simpson 1 0 3
Afanador 0 0 1
Jamison 1 2 1
Landis 1 1 0
— — —
Totals 4 4 9
Greentown ( 31) FG FT PF
McQuiston 0- 1 1
Gipe 2 0 0
Shrader 4 2 1
Smith 1 0 20
Lamb 3 2
Weisenauer 2 0 3
Hershberger 0 0 1
Hinkle 0 0 0
Doan 0 2 0
Larowe 0 0 00
Cheek 0 0
Totals - 12 7 8
Russiaville ( 16) FG FT PF
Davenport . 1 0 1
Kanable 1 0 0
G. Heaton 1 1 0
Talbert 2 0 1
According to an announcement Mon-day
from the State Department of
Conservation, a new type of the Euro-pean
corn borer has been found in
Union, Jackson and Liberty- Town-ships
of Howard County and the whole
of several adjoining counties, all of
which is placed under quarantine. The
three east end townships of Union,
Jackson and Liberty were under sim-ilar
quarantine , last year because of
the corn borer.
The announcement further stated
that the insect labeled pyrausta nu-bilalis
Hubn, has not heretofore been
widely distributed. The conservation
commission has ordered that no corn
broom corn, sorghums or Sudan grass,
including all parts of the stalk, except
the grains or seeds thereof when prop-erly
cleaned, shall be moved; trans-ported
or carried from the quarantin-ed
areas.
The regulation does not restrict the
movement, transportation or carriage
of any article mentioned above en-tirely
within the quarantined area as
fixed by the United States department
of agriculture for the states of Indi-ana,
Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
New Yorivxsi. / 014.,.. yirginia. nor the
MoviMient 0 f suchat^ icieitn- 6771e'
area from points outside; nor the
transportation of any such article
when it has been manufactured or
processed in such a manner as to elim-inate
risk of carriage of the borer;
nor of clean shelled corn, clean seed
if broom corn, nor clean seed of Sudan
grass or sorghums.
Counties bordering Howard which
have been included in the quarantine
are Grant, Miami, and the townships
of Madison and Wildcat in Tipton
county.
While no definite word has been
received concerning the paving of the
State Road No. 22 between Kokomo
and Marion passing through Green-town,
reports have gained considerable
circulation that the right- of- way di-rector
from the state highway com-mission
is meeting with success in his
efforts to secure the required sixty
foot right- of- way among farmers a-long
the proposed route, and that the
paving will be made as outlined by
him last week. This is not authentic
but is taken to mean that so far the
prospects loot good.
The work of seeing all the land own-ers
along the road is a tedious task
and will require some time. It is
hoped that he will secure the required
number of grants and report to the
commission in time to get the road in
the February contract as let by the
commission.
As one farmer stated, the eliminat-ion
of the dust from the road would
far exceed the value of the five feet
of ground being asked for.
Liberty Farmers Interest-ed
in Institute To Meet Sat.
William Duncan, acting in the inter-est
of a Farmers' Institute for Liber-ty
Township next year, has asked that
all Liberty farmers and their wives
and any others, to meet at the city
building in Greentown Saturday af-ternoon
at two o'clock for a discussion
of the matter.
For some reason the institute sched-uled
for Liberty this year failed to
materialize, mostly from lack of in-terest
and organization. Twenty five
men and fifteen women are required
to sign for an institute to secure the
state aid, and Mr. Duncan desires to
know the desires of the community
in regards the institute for next year
If interested be at the city hall Sat-urday
afternoon.
Radio Song to Honor Mr.
and Mrs. H. C. Applegate
A song will be sung over Radio Sta
' ion WHBF at Indianapolis no'.
Thursday evening at 6: 30 o'clock in
.. prior of the 50th wedding anniver-
, ary of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Apple.
7ate of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Ap-plegate
will celebrate their gold,
wedding annivksary during the da,;,
by holding open house. Tune in an:
hear this song in honor of our beloved
citizens.
UNION, JACKSON, LIB-ERTY
IN QUARANTINE
Another Type of Corn Borer Found
Here and Three Townships Are
Again Quarantined.
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES ALSO
PLACED UNDER QUARANTINE
No Corn Can Be Removed From Re-stricted
Area During the Quar-antine
Period.
BEAVERS BREAK EVEN
IN WEEK- END GAMES
Trip Union Here Friday Night 31- 12
But Fall Before Russiaville Sat-urday
Night 16- 15.
KINGMEN ON ROAD TWO WEEKS
BEFORE CONVERSE COMES HERE
All arrangements and plans for
the annual Howard township farm
institute have been announced by
John C. Shruck, chairman. The
meetings will open on Monday after-noon,
Februray 9, and continue
through Tuesday, February 10.
On Monday afternoon there will
be a general poultry discussion led
by an experienced speaker and a
varied program of entertainment.
The Howard township unit of the
farm bureau will have charge of the
evening program.
The sessions Tuesday will include
addresses in both the morning and
afternoon and a fine display of both
farm and home exhibits. The speak-ers
will be C. E. Troyer of Wabash
county who is internationally known
as a corn grower and Mrs. Etta M.
Guilliams of Montgomery county
who will discuss 4- H work and farm
activities.
For the' exhibits, three prizes will
be awarded in each of the following
classes:
Men's Division
Best single ear yellow corn; ten
best ears yellow corn; best peck of
yellow shelled corn. •
Bova;
BeSt Engle ear yellow corn; ten
best ears yellow corn; best peck of
yellow shelled corn.
Open Division
Best peck soy beans; best plate
( ten) any variety early potatoes;
best plate ( ten) and variety late po-tatoes.
Sweepstake prizes for best
single ear and best ten ears yellow
corn. All displays must have been
grown by the exhibitors from the
1930 crop. Only yellow corn will be
shown this year.
Women and Girls
Prizes will be awarded for - best
white cake, dark cake and angel food
cake. Sewing exhibits of junior and
senior high school will also be on
display.
Report of Death of Marvin
Babcock Is All Mistake
Through a letter received the first
of the week from Marguerite Babcock,
daughter of Marvin Babcock, who
was reported dead, the announcement
of which was carried in the columns
of The Gem two weeks ago, it was
learned that the report was false and
unfounded. She asks that a correc-tion
be made and the facts given to
the many friends of the Babcock fam-ily
here. A cousin of Mr. Babcock is
said to have died at this time and it
is thought that the report was confus-ed
and misunderstood. However, the
report a Mr. Babcock's death gained
wide circulation here and at Converse
where Mr. Babcock was raised, and
both the Converse paper and The Gem
took the report to be true. We are
mighty glad to learn that Marvin
" Sox" is very much alive and that he
is now able to join Mark Twain in
saying " The report is very much ex-aggerated."
Infant Son Buried Here
Monday Afternoon
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Ellis Fell of Kokomo, was buried
in the I. 0. 0. F. cemetery Monday
afternoon. A brief service was held
at the grave, attended by members
of the immediate family. The child
which weighed ten pounds, died at
birth, at 8: 45 o'clock Sunday morning
at the Howard County hospital. The
mother is reported as improving rap-idly.
The unfortunate parents have the
heart felt sympathy of their many
friends here in their bereavement.
Ritz 2 0 2
C. Heaton 0 1 0
— — —
Totals 7 2 4
Greentown ( 15) FG FT PF
Gipe 2 3 0
McQuiston 2 0 0
Weisenauer 1 0 1
Shrader 0 0 1
Smith 0 0 0
Lamb 1 0 0
- — —
Totals 6 3 2
Klif Write sez hee toald em ter git
hiz kash wregistur en bukz oute, en
den set doun ter enjoye de fire bi de
wradio.
Whutz de yuse uv goin ter Floridee
whin Indianny hez siche knice wethir
ter injoye.
Dere iz a mann ovir bi Waltun dat
hez korne wraised onn hiz farme inn
Miamee cownty en iz kwarinteend
frum taikin itt ter hiz stawk in Kass
cownty. Hee mite bete de korne boric
bi drivin hiz stawk ovir ter Miamer
kownty ter fede em widoute gittin
mixt up wid yer Unkil Sammy.
County Champions Rap
Howard Hi Handily, 25- 19
The Jackson • Township County
Champs rapped Howard Township at
Jackson last Friday night 23- 19 in a
well played game on the Stonewall's
floor. The score at the half was 12
to 6, and the Stonewalls maintained
their lead for the remainder of the
game, easing off a bit toward the last
and the Howard boys seized the op-portunity
to crawl up on the home
team. Jackson had command of the
game from the start. Bummiller was
best for Howard with 6 points, while
Crandall was high for the Millerrnen
with 13 points.
Jackson and Union will tangle Fri-day
night at Union.
The line- up and score:
Howard ( 19) FG FT PF
G over 1
2 3
Bammiller 3 0 0
Littler 1
1 1
K ratzer 0
1 3
Newcoin 2
1 2
Tothis 9
Jackson ( 23) FG FT PF
Middlesworth 2
3
2
Rennaker 1 1 3
Highley 0
0
2
Crandall 5
3
1
Powell 0
0
1
Totals 8 7 9
Prospects For Road No. 22
Paving Look Encouraging
P.

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Local Girl Guest of Honor
At Farewell Party Mon.
Miss Alice Cottingham, who has
been employed at the Northern Indi-ana'
Power Co. offices at Kokomo for
some time, has resigned her position
to accept a position in the Union
Traction Offices at Anderson. Miss
Cottingham was the guest of honor
at a farewell party Monday evening
at Kokomo, tendered her by friends
in the power company offices at Koko-
MO.
Vishanoff to Speak at the
Meridian St. church Sun.
Dr. D. E. C. Vishanoff, M. D., of
Thessalonica, Macedonia, will speak at
the Meridian Street Christian Church
Sunday evening. He will use as his
subject; " Macedonia, My Native
Land." Dr. Vishanoff has been en-gaged
in missionary work, and is a
very able speaker. He brings a mes-sage
well worth hearing. Everybody
invited.
Research Club To Have
Pot Luck LuncheonTeb. 12
A Pot- luck luncheon will be held
with Mrs. R. W. Graham Thursday,
February 12, at 12 o'clock. All mem-bers
are requested to bring their own
table service.
" YOUNG MEN" HOLD TREE
CUTTINi PARTY WED. A. M.
When two of our " young men" get
together there is bound to be some-thing
doing. W. A. Fulwider and
Uncle Bill Wright have had their
heads set on doing something unusual
for some time, and have spent quite
a bit of leisure hours deciding on just
what they would do. Wednesday
morning found them on the job, at-tacking
a thirty inch tree. Both of
these gentlemen are 81 years old and
they don't look or act it. If you doubt
this ask any one who viewed the cere-monies
of the tree felling Wednesday.
The only difference from olden days
says Bill is that we had to stop a little
oftener to get our breath and take a
" drink."
That's sure fine to see our older
' itizens behaving like youngsters and
Sur wish for them is that they may
enjoy a still longer life, growing
younger as they get older.
THE Henry
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THIRTY- SEVENTH YEAR
GREENTOWN, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEB. 5, 1931
No. 28
HainsGarageDestroyedbyFireSat. Morn.
Flames Discovered at 2: 20 Saturday
Morning in Battery Room Sweep
Entire Building.
Twenty- One Cars, Truck, Tractor and
Motorcycle Along With Contents
Consumed in Flames
$ 25,000.00 LOSS PARTIALLY
• COVERED BY INSURANCE unless some valiant worwas one
other buildings were doomed along
with the garage building, and much
concern was felt for the Hamer resi-dence,
the M. E. Church, the big
sale barn, besides the post office, and
the Kemper and Wagner buildings to
the north were watched very closely
during the progress of the fire. Sparks
fell upon the roofs of the bank build-ing,
Smith's building and the Ford
Home, but were extinguished by the
watchers.
Only One Storage Car
Only one storage car was in the
garage for the night, which belonged
to John Osborn. Mr. Osborn said he
had left lais work clothing in the car
A property loss of $ 25,000.00 occur- along with an overcoat. They all
ed early Saturday morning when the went up in smoke.
Hams Garage, operated by John Mains Loss Partially Covered
local Chevrolet dealer and proprietor Mr. Mains is understood to have car-of
a general garage and storage busi- vied approximately $ 6,000 on the con-ness,
was consumed by fire which raz- tents of the building and a partial
ed the large garage building along coverage on the new cars, while it
with the contents which consisted of has not been leraned how much, if
five new Chevrolet cars, a truck, tract- any, was carried on the building.
or, motorcycle and fourteen used cars The building was owned by a Mr.
and a storage car belonging to John Darling of South Whitley, and up to
Osborn, along with a very complete * he time this is being written, had
garage equipment consisting of tools, not come to look over the ruins of his
Batteries, accessories, oils, greases, building.
tires, etc. The post office building Undecided About Future.
across the alley to the south, was also The many friends of Mr. Hams are
considerably damaged by fire and anxious to know of his future plans,
water, as was the roof of the garage and in answer to the question Tues-belonging
to Chas. Hamer a few feet day, stated that he did not know yet
to the south of the post office. Win- just what he would do and that furth-dows
were cracked by the intense heat er plans could not be made until he
in the buildings across the street to conferred with Mr. Darling, owner of
the east at the Wright drug store and the building, and other details of the
the Ford Home. loss worked out. He, however, stated
Discovered About 2: 20 O'clock that he would continue the Chevrolet
The blaze was discovered about 2: 20 • rency here, and would probably be
o'clock by Mr. ancI, Mrs. Charles Ham- job again by next week. This
e' 3'; w A i.
o reside ne. ti to tine post ° dice- Lie received many
south of the garage. Mrs. Hamer ! by the people of Greentown
well alsri$ S
and com-was
awakened by the smell of smoke munity, as we would suffer a very
and aroused her husband who made noticable loss should the HaMs' de-an
investigation, finding the garage tide to leave town. The Hams gar-full
of smoke. He immediately turn- age was a very popular place among
ed in the alarm and sought to notify autoists, and Mr. Heins, along with
the owners. his two brothers employed in the busi-
Started in the Battery Room ness had made many friends who are
According to those arriving at the really and sincerely interested in their
garage first, the flames were confined wellfare.
to the battery room just back of the Praise For Kokomo Firemen
office on the north side. Claude Stan- Too much thanks and praise can-ley
and Jake Buzzard, employed at not be given the Kokomo fire depart-the
local bakery, were probably a- ment for their efficient help during
mong the first to arrive on the scene, the fire. The quick response to the
and with the chemical tanks, began to call for help and the vigor with which
fight the fire through a window of the they entered the fight calls forth much
battery room, but the small amount admiration, as well as thankfulness
of chemicals on hand was insufficient for having such friendly neighbors
to make much impression on the blaze who are so willing to lend a helping
but with the arrival of more of the hand in a time of grave danger and
tanks it was hoped to be able to get need. They are given credit and
it under control. rightfully so, for saving the post of-
It is said that the glass in the front' lice and other buildings to the south
doors was broken, giving the blaze a of the garage. The men worked hard
draft and the flames enveloped the manning two large hose connected to
whole interior of the building almost the water plug on the alley by the
immediately. By this time help was Ford Home, the booster pump giving
beginning to arrive and the big front out some one hundred pounds of pres-sure,
which threw a stream with tell-ing
effect.
Must Also Thank Water Co.
While thanks is being passed around
we must not forget Mr. Grau, and
the water works company. Mr. Grau
worked hard all during the fire and
turned the water plant over to the
pumping of water for the Kokomo
booster. They kept up a fairly large
supply of water all during the pro-gress
of the fire.
We believe we speak the sentiment
of the entire community when we ex-tend
our thanks to the Kokomo fire
department and the Greentown water
works company for the part they
played in Attling the flames.
Third Building To Burn
The garage building was the third
one to bum on this spot since 1900.
The first to burn was a frame livery
barn, and the second a sheet iron liv-ery
and feed barn along about 1910
after which the present cement block
building was erected.
Other Big Fires
Since 1900 Greentown has had its
share of big losses by fire, beginning
with the first Corona mill fire, comes
the two elevator fires, the two livery
barn fires, the skating rink, the old
American hotel or Interurban station,
the Henley & Willcutts explosion and
fire, the glass factory, the school
building, the post office and Mast &
Petro hardware, the canning factory,
and the second Corona mill blaze. All
these tell a tale of destruction and re-present
a property damage of hun-dreds
of thousands of dollars in mon-ey,
besides the impairment of busi-ness
generally in the town.
As in the present fire, Greentown
was lucky. The wind, was from the
right direction to aid in keeping the
flames from spreading ` o other build-ings.
No one can truth: ully say that
with better fire fighting equipment
any of these buildings could have beer
saved, but it is reasonable to assume
Continued on last page
KOKOMO PUMPER RENDERS
VALUABLE ASSISTANCE
Post Office Damaged — Windows
Cracked by Intense Heat— Other
Buildings Threatened.
doors were broken open and a new
Chevrolet Coupe nearest the door was
dragged and half carried from the
burning building.
The smoke and heat was so intense
by this time that all efforts to re-move
any of the other cars would have
been a very dangerous task. The big
wrecking car was taken from the
building through the back door.
Many Explosions Occur
As the flames swept over the build-ing
several explosions occurred, bar-rels
of oil and tanks of gasoline let
go with terrific force, making the heat
more intense and the smoke rose sky-ward
in large volume. The walls were
pushed outward, releasing much of the
heat, which cracked windows across
the street to the east.
As the flames swept through the
garage the heat and flying embers
caught the post office building just
across the alley to the south, and the
volunteers began work on saving this
building, and watchers were posted on
all the surrounding buildings. The
roof on the Hamer residence was kept
soaked with water.
Call For Help From Kokomo
Realizing that the fire might soon
get beyond all control and sweep
entire block, a call was made to the
Kokomo fire department, who respond-ed
to the call for help by a quick run
with a pumper truck. Just thirteen
minutes after the company had the
request, they were stopping on Mer-idian
street and unloading a line of
hose.
In the meantime Oscar Grau, local
manager of. the water works, started
the pump and had the big tank sup-plied
with a good supply of water for
the pumper to use.
The hose was played on the walls
next to the post office first and then
turned upon the building extinguish-ing
the blaze on the roof and then go-ing
to the rear of the garage and
playing the stream on the flames to
kill them down and keep the burning
embers from blowing over the town,
thus lessening the danger of other
buildings catching fire.
The post office caught fire two or
three times, but the stream played on
it by the Kokomo boys kept it under
control.
Other Buildings Threatened
It was apparent from the first that
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CHRIST FOR ALL- ALL FOR CHRIST
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ny wad Ma lamp am. my feet. aad a HIM um .1 Yalk— Poor 119: 11.
SAFETY WHILE ASLEEP — I
will both lay me down in peace, and
sleep: for thou, Lord only makest me
dwell in safety.— Psalm 4: 8.
PRAYER— Help us to realize that
" the angel of the Lord encampeth
round about them that fear Him." • • • • • • • • • •
• Remember the Sabbath Day, to
• Keep It Holy.— Exodus 20: 6. •
• GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY •
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Only Four Games Remain Before the
Sectional Tourney on March
Sixth and Seventh
Howard Institute Will Be
Held Monday and Tuesday
The Greentown Beavers were
thrown for their fifth loss of the sea-son
at Russiaville Saturday night
when the Cossacks rung up a 16- 15
victory over the Kingmen in a thrill-ing
duel, and Union Township fell be-fore
the locals on Friday night in the
local gym by the score of 31- 12, for
the Beavers tenth victory of the sea-son.
This places the Beavers on a .750
percentage basis.
The schedule calls for the Beavers
to tfavel for the next two weeks, with
the first journey taking them to Am-boy,
where they are expected to run
into hard sledding, but a victory is
anticipated. The Beavers have one
win over the Amboy boys, but since
that time the Amboyites have im-proved
greatly and expect to give the
locals a hard run for their money.
On the following Friday evening the
Green and White journey to Young
America. When Young America ap-peared
here earlier in the season, they
looked bad, but Coach Williams has
them up and coming now as evidenced
by the county tourney play, and the
Beavers will be forced to play their
best ball to chalk up a win here.
Converse comes here on Feb. 20.
Trin a. isreg t's'eXPected to be the "' Chas-ic
of the local season. The locals were
bested at Converse by a small count,
and the Converse boys have been go-ing
strong, meeting defeat only at the
hands of Sweetser, Grant County
champions. Converse captured the
Miami County meet two weeks ago.
This game will be a sizzler. Howard
Township closes the schedule here on
Feb. 27. This should be a good game
as both teams will be polishing off for
the sectional the following week.
Union Fights Hard
Despite the bear stories that Coach
King floated during the past week,
Friday night found most of the Beav-ers
ready for action and the Union
Township Cardinals fell before their
offensive in fairly easy fashion, 31- 12.
Despite the large score against them,
the Cardinals fought all the way, and
presented a fairly strong defense a-gainst
the Kingmen, but their- offense
was_ stopped by the locals almost be-fore
it started. The locals pulled a-way
from the start and were never
headed. Jamison performed well for
the visitors on both defense and of-fense,
while Shrader was the scoring
boy for the locals.
Russiaville Grabs Thriller.
Coach King took the Beavers to
Russiaville Saturday night and receiv-ed
a one point reverse by the Cossacks
who have suddenly come to life and
are now playing bang- up ball.
The scoring was fairly even for the
first part of the game, with Russia-ville
taking a 9- 5 lead at the half. The
Beavers began hitting in the second
half and with three minutes to go had
assumed a one point lead. The play
was hard and' desparte. Kanable en-tered
the game and shortly after loop-ed
the winning goal for Russiaville,
giving- them a one point advantage
shortly before the final gun.
The local seconds faired better for
the two games, winning from Union
seconds 19- 9, and from Russiaville,
19- 14..
The line- ups and scores:
Union ( 12) FG FT PF
Petro 0 0 1
Wimmer 1 1 3
Simpson 1 0 3
Afanador 0 0 1
Jamison 1 2 1
Landis 1 1 0
— — —
Totals 4 4 9
Greentown ( 31) FG FT PF
McQuiston 0- 1 1
Gipe 2 0 0
Shrader 4 2 1
Smith 1 0 20
Lamb 3 2
Weisenauer 2 0 3
Hershberger 0 0 1
Hinkle 0 0 0
Doan 0 2 0
Larowe 0 0 00
Cheek 0 0
Totals - 12 7 8
Russiaville ( 16) FG FT PF
Davenport . 1 0 1
Kanable 1 0 0
G. Heaton 1 1 0
Talbert 2 0 1
According to an announcement Mon-day
from the State Department of
Conservation, a new type of the Euro-pean
corn borer has been found in
Union, Jackson and Liberty- Town-ships
of Howard County and the whole
of several adjoining counties, all of
which is placed under quarantine. The
three east end townships of Union,
Jackson and Liberty were under sim-ilar
quarantine , last year because of
the corn borer.
The announcement further stated
that the insect labeled pyrausta nu-bilalis
Hubn, has not heretofore been
widely distributed. The conservation
commission has ordered that no corn
broom corn, sorghums or Sudan grass,
including all parts of the stalk, except
the grains or seeds thereof when prop-erly
cleaned, shall be moved; trans-ported
or carried from the quarantin-ed
areas.
The regulation does not restrict the
movement, transportation or carriage
of any article mentioned above en-tirely
within the quarantined area as
fixed by the United States department
of agriculture for the states of Indi-ana,
Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
New Yorivxsi. / 014.,.. yirginia. nor the
MoviMient 0 f suchat^ icieitn- 6771e'
area from points outside; nor the
transportation of any such article
when it has been manufactured or
processed in such a manner as to elim-inate
risk of carriage of the borer;
nor of clean shelled corn, clean seed
if broom corn, nor clean seed of Sudan
grass or sorghums.
Counties bordering Howard which
have been included in the quarantine
are Grant, Miami, and the townships
of Madison and Wildcat in Tipton
county.
While no definite word has been
received concerning the paving of the
State Road No. 22 between Kokomo
and Marion passing through Green-town,
reports have gained considerable
circulation that the right- of- way di-rector
from the state highway com-mission
is meeting with success in his
efforts to secure the required sixty
foot right- of- way among farmers a-long
the proposed route, and that the
paving will be made as outlined by
him last week. This is not authentic
but is taken to mean that so far the
prospects loot good.
The work of seeing all the land own-ers
along the road is a tedious task
and will require some time. It is
hoped that he will secure the required
number of grants and report to the
commission in time to get the road in
the February contract as let by the
commission.
As one farmer stated, the eliminat-ion
of the dust from the road would
far exceed the value of the five feet
of ground being asked for.
Liberty Farmers Interest-ed
in Institute To Meet Sat.
William Duncan, acting in the inter-est
of a Farmers' Institute for Liber-ty
Township next year, has asked that
all Liberty farmers and their wives
and any others, to meet at the city
building in Greentown Saturday af-ternoon
at two o'clock for a discussion
of the matter.
For some reason the institute sched-uled
for Liberty this year failed to
materialize, mostly from lack of in-terest
and organization. Twenty five
men and fifteen women are required
to sign for an institute to secure the
state aid, and Mr. Duncan desires to
know the desires of the community
in regards the institute for next year
If interested be at the city hall Sat-urday
afternoon.
Radio Song to Honor Mr.
and Mrs. H. C. Applegate
A song will be sung over Radio Sta
' ion WHBF at Indianapolis no'.
Thursday evening at 6: 30 o'clock in
.. prior of the 50th wedding anniver-
, ary of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Apple.
7ate of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Ap-plegate
will celebrate their gold,
wedding annivksary during the da,;,
by holding open house. Tune in an:
hear this song in honor of our beloved
citizens.
UNION, JACKSON, LIB-ERTY
IN QUARANTINE
Another Type of Corn Borer Found
Here and Three Townships Are
Again Quarantined.
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES ALSO
PLACED UNDER QUARANTINE
No Corn Can Be Removed From Re-stricted
Area During the Quar-antine
Period.
BEAVERS BREAK EVEN
IN WEEK- END GAMES
Trip Union Here Friday Night 31- 12
But Fall Before Russiaville Sat-urday
Night 16- 15.
KINGMEN ON ROAD TWO WEEKS
BEFORE CONVERSE COMES HERE
All arrangements and plans for
the annual Howard township farm
institute have been announced by
John C. Shruck, chairman. The
meetings will open on Monday after-noon,
Februray 9, and continue
through Tuesday, February 10.
On Monday afternoon there will
be a general poultry discussion led
by an experienced speaker and a
varied program of entertainment.
The Howard township unit of the
farm bureau will have charge of the
evening program.
The sessions Tuesday will include
addresses in both the morning and
afternoon and a fine display of both
farm and home exhibits. The speak-ers
will be C. E. Troyer of Wabash
county who is internationally known
as a corn grower and Mrs. Etta M.
Guilliams of Montgomery county
who will discuss 4- H work and farm
activities.
For the' exhibits, three prizes will
be awarded in each of the following
classes:
Men's Division
Best single ear yellow corn; ten
best ears yellow corn; best peck of
yellow shelled corn. •
Bova;
BeSt Engle ear yellow corn; ten
best ears yellow corn; best peck of
yellow shelled corn.
Open Division
Best peck soy beans; best plate
( ten) any variety early potatoes;
best plate ( ten) and variety late po-tatoes.
Sweepstake prizes for best
single ear and best ten ears yellow
corn. All displays must have been
grown by the exhibitors from the
1930 crop. Only yellow corn will be
shown this year.
Women and Girls
Prizes will be awarded for - best
white cake, dark cake and angel food
cake. Sewing exhibits of junior and
senior high school will also be on
display.
Report of Death of Marvin
Babcock Is All Mistake
Through a letter received the first
of the week from Marguerite Babcock,
daughter of Marvin Babcock, who
was reported dead, the announcement
of which was carried in the columns
of The Gem two weeks ago, it was
learned that the report was false and
unfounded. She asks that a correc-tion
be made and the facts given to
the many friends of the Babcock fam-ily
here. A cousin of Mr. Babcock is
said to have died at this time and it
is thought that the report was confus-ed
and misunderstood. However, the
report a Mr. Babcock's death gained
wide circulation here and at Converse
where Mr. Babcock was raised, and
both the Converse paper and The Gem
took the report to be true. We are
mighty glad to learn that Marvin
" Sox" is very much alive and that he
is now able to join Mark Twain in
saying " The report is very much ex-aggerated."
Infant Son Buried Here
Monday Afternoon
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Ellis Fell of Kokomo, was buried
in the I. 0. 0. F. cemetery Monday
afternoon. A brief service was held
at the grave, attended by members
of the immediate family. The child
which weighed ten pounds, died at
birth, at 8: 45 o'clock Sunday morning
at the Howard County hospital. The
mother is reported as improving rap-idly.
The unfortunate parents have the
heart felt sympathy of their many
friends here in their bereavement.
Ritz 2 0 2
C. Heaton 0 1 0
— — —
Totals 7 2 4
Greentown ( 15) FG FT PF
Gipe 2 3 0
McQuiston 2 0 0
Weisenauer 1 0 1
Shrader 0 0 1
Smith 0 0 0
Lamb 1 0 0
- — —
Totals 6 3 2
Klif Write sez hee toald em ter git
hiz kash wregistur en bukz oute, en
den set doun ter enjoye de fire bi de
wradio.
Whutz de yuse uv goin ter Floridee
whin Indianny hez siche knice wethir
ter injoye.
Dere iz a mann ovir bi Waltun dat
hez korne wraised onn hiz farme inn
Miamee cownty en iz kwarinteend
frum taikin itt ter hiz stawk in Kass
cownty. Hee mite bete de korne boric
bi drivin hiz stawk ovir ter Miamer
kownty ter fede em widoute gittin
mixt up wid yer Unkil Sammy.
County Champions Rap
Howard Hi Handily, 25- 19
The Jackson • Township County
Champs rapped Howard Township at
Jackson last Friday night 23- 19 in a
well played game on the Stonewall's
floor. The score at the half was 12
to 6, and the Stonewalls maintained
their lead for the remainder of the
game, easing off a bit toward the last
and the Howard boys seized the op-portunity
to crawl up on the home
team. Jackson had command of the
game from the start. Bummiller was
best for Howard with 6 points, while
Crandall was high for the Millerrnen
with 13 points.
Jackson and Union will tangle Fri-day
night at Union.
The line- up and score:
Howard ( 19) FG FT PF
G over 1
2 3
Bammiller 3 0 0
Littler 1
1 1
K ratzer 0
1 3
Newcoin 2
1 2
Tothis 9
Jackson ( 23) FG FT PF
Middlesworth 2
3
2
Rennaker 1 1 3
Highley 0
0
2
Crandall 5
3
1
Powell 0
0
1
Totals 8 7 9
Prospects For Road No. 22
Paving Look Encouraging
P.